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Yan Georget

Yan Georget has a degree from Paris-based
Ecole Polytechnique
and a Ph.D. in computer science from
INRIA.
He worked several years in the software industry as technical lead and project
manager.
In 2002, he co-founded Koalog,
a software company specialized in Java components for combinatorial
optimization.

Articles

Sudoku puzzles are wildly popular, and offer an ideal introduction to constraint programming (CP). Rather than using brute force to find every possible solution, CP allows you to specify what must be true in a problem space, and then efficiently finds an answer. Yan Georget shows how this works.